Will the capture and or death of Saddam and his sons end the Iraq guerrilla war?

The answer to this question could well be critical to U.S. fortunes in Iraq. If the guerrillas aren't fighting for Saddam, his death or capture presumably won't have much of an impact on their operations.

It is imperative that before it is too late, American policymakers, put aside their partisan squabbling to examine the possibility that the US is trapped as it was trapped in Vietnam 30 years ago, or as the Russians are today in Chechnya.

The grey lie does not need to be proven; fear of terrorism has convinced a confused public that their government MUST keep secrets in order to keep security. The question is never asked, "Security for whom?"

In order to give Enron one last desperate chance to complete the Taliban pipeline and save itself from bankruptcy, senior levels of US intelligence were ordered to keep their eyes shut and their subordinates ignorant.

Law enforcement agencies in five US states reported the theft or disappearance of hundreds of official uniforms, badges and ID cards in the first half of 2003, prompting federal authorities to warn on Thursday that terrorists may be seeking to acquire them for new attacks.

What is the depth of the American soul if we can allow destruction to be done in our name and the name of "liberation" and never even demand an accounting of its costs, both personal and public, when it is over?

Did Dr Kelly commit suicide because he could no longer tolerate the fact that the government he worked for had lied in order to justify going to war? Or was he murdered because he was about to expose the lies?

The United States, which has long lectured Latin American countries on human rights abuses, is now pressuring a number of those countries to sign bilateral agreements granting immunity to U.S. citizens from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court.

"I am not sure how many cars drove up to the checkpoint but it was at least two. The first car went down the road and they opened fire on it. Then a Toyota carrying a mother, a father, a son and a disabled man went down there and was also shot at. They were all killed. I saw it."

"Unless this situation changes soon, and radically, the United States may end up fighting a third Gulf war against the Iraqi people . . . It is far from clear that the United States can win this kind of asymmetric war."

The truism stands: the guerrillas win if they do not lose. And they do not lose as long as they keep fighting, dying, killing, and raising the cost of the occupation. British, French, Israelis, and Russians can testify to that.

For DeLay and millions of other Christian Zionists, slaughtered Palestinians are but a fleeting tick on their moral compasses, if that. In fact, for Christian Zionists the Palestinians are all but invisible, except when they strike out in desperation.

We must learn from this that US military strategy, doctrine, tactics and whatever else you can think of have reached a point of total bankruptcy. They are simply incapable of fighting real battles against real people who do not roll over and play dead on cue.

Did the Americans get upset when the lie was discovered? Not at all. So the president lied. Big deal. And the CIA helped him to lie. Big deal again. The important thing is that the sons of Saddam have been killed in a "targeted elimination", Israeli-style. How wonderful!

A vocal segment of evangelical Protestants, are lobbying the Bush administration to abandon the peace plan because they believe it rewards terrorism, and violates God's promise in Genesis to give the Jewish people the historic land of Israel.

There is a long history of imperial powers, gloating over victories, becoming over-extended and overconfident, as their citizens begin to get uneasy because their day-to-day fundamental needs are being sacrificed for military glory while their young are sent to die in wars. A Must Read

I wonder, does George Bush feel better now about the alleged assassination attempt on his father? For Bush Junior, killing people in Iraq is personal. "There's no doubt (that Saddam) can't stand us," Bush said at a Republican fund-raising event in Houston in September of 2002. "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my Dad at one time." A Must Read

The Bully In The China Shop Toward the end of the Korean War while the US with Un forces were still ravaging S Korea, our General Dougles MacArthur requested authority to use atomic weapons and submitted a list of targets for which he would need 26 A-bombs. These requested A-bombs were to be employed against North Korean and Chinese targets. A Must Read

America's GIs feel like living targets on Baghdad's streets, while the subjects of the accursed dictator Saddam Hussein complain more and more vocally about the arrogance and incompetence of their conquerors.

To call these guerrillas "criminals" and the "frustrated" because of lack of "services," is disgraceful! But to add to the mix the blame placed on Saddam Hussein because he released prisoners in a general amnesty is raw propaganda directed at the ignorant.

Under this cease-fire, the Israeli government continues to send occupation soldiers to rip up trees and crops, creating wastelands that reinforce the myth that this is a land without a people, as if no Palestinian family ever lived here.

The ability of the U.S. to win the "hearts and minds" of Iraqis diminishes with each passing day. Yet the ability of token guerrilla forces to kill American troops, seemingly at will and at random, increases daily.

: When the history of the second Bush administration is written, historians will conclude that one of its worst diplomatic blunders was President Bush's incendiary "axis of evil" appellation to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

The president's daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, contained "information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives," the report stated.

The station's Baghdad bureau chief has said, his offices and staff in Iraq "have been subject to strafing by gunfire, death threats, confiscation of news material, and multiple detentions and arrests, all carried out by US soldiers".

Assets seized from the Iraqi government should be used to rebuild the country and not to compensate 17 Americans held captive in Iraq in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge Tuesday.

NEARLY THREE MONTHS after President Bush declared major military operations over in Iraq, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers said central Iraq, from Baghdad to Tikrit, was still a war zone.

Halliburton Co. asked a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit charging that the company and Vice President Dick Cheney, its former chief executive, misled investors by changing the way it counted revenue from construction projects.

U.S. officials insisted in 1989, for instance, on playing down the importance of a scandal involving an Atlanta-based bank and more than $5 billion in unauthorized loans to Iraq, including $900 million guaranteed by the U.S. government.

Small scale wars against an already beaten opposition are one thing but already, after only ninety days, theyre having to admit that far from subduing the enemy, each day sees increasing opposition to the rule of the New Imperium.

The usual mangled speech but Bush is let off the hook in rare press conference

The main lesson to emerge from the 50-minute session, the first since the invasion of Iraq four months ago, was how easily the chief executive evaded any serious damage - and how the reporters made it easy for him to do so.

U.S. Changes Tactics in Violent Iraq City As of Tuesday, according to local officials, blood money had been paid to 26 families who suffered losses in the April killings: usually $1,500 for a fatality and $500 for an injury.